Make these 5 Facebook tweaks now to protect your privacy

2:45 PM,
Apr. 4, 2014

Written by

Kim Komando
| Special for USA TODAY

Facebook has been in the news a lot recently. Mark Zuckerberg bought the What's App company in February for a staggering, mind-blowing, huge - I'm running out of adjectives here - $19 billion. Then the company bought a little-known virtual-reality headset maker, Oculus VR, for $2 billion.

Those high-profile deals shouldn't distract us from the fact that Facebook's main business is selling advertising based on the mountains of information it's got on its user base. And when I say "user base," I mean me and you.

The targeting practices going on behind the scenes are both deep and complex. We the ...